Music-sheet fob playing instruments



C 0. S. ANDERSON. MUSIC SHEET FOR PLAYING INSTRUMENTS.

.AEPLICATIQN FILED JUNE 4,1917.

1 321,076. I I Patented'Nov. 11, 1919.

INVENTGRQ Carl 0 51400221166512 CARLOTTO SEGESMUND ANDERSON, 0F LONG ISLAND, NEW Y ORK.

MUSIC-SHEET FOB, PLAYING INSTRUMENTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov.'11, 191 9 Application filed June 4, 1917. Serial No. 172,830.

To all whom it may concern 4 Be it known that I, CARL OT'ro SEGES- ML'NI) ANnnnsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Long Island, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Music-Sheets for Playing Instruments, of which the following is a specifi-cation.

This invention has to do with perforated traveling music sheetsadapted to be employed on pianolas, player pianos and simi: lar apparatus having pneumatic trackers, and the main object of the invention 'is to provide the perforated music sheet with the written musical composition in order to present-or visualize the same in proper succession to the operator or bystander 1n agreement wlth the translation of the note per- I forations into the melody, so that the Writ ten composition may be read and sung from the music sheet itself as the player piano or apparatus employing it is operated.

Another object of the invention is to place the musical composition on. the face of the music sheet in such manner as to permit the musical characters and thewords to be made in such size that they can be readily followed and read at a distance by the average person, and also that two or more staves including the musical characters andwonds may be placed on the music sheet so that the various divisions of the. melody may be presented and visualized to enable the singing of the ('OIIIPOSltiOH in its various parts or for the use of performers on string or wind instrulmints.

W ith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in securing to or printing on the perforated traveling music sheet, sections or divisions of the musical composition in spaced-apart position in proper consecutive order from the beginning of the composition to the end thereof, as will be more fully described in the following specification. e

The, character of the invention may be explained and illustrated more conveniently by reference to the embodiment illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which represents a fragment of a perforated music sheet of conventional type having sections of the musical compositionincluding the words printed on the face thereof in the preferred inclined position in parallelism, there being also'illustrated in this connection a portion of a pneumatic tracker.

In the use of pianolas, player pianos and like apparatus, the operator or bystanders often desire to follow the conventionally written notes of the tuneand the words to sing the same as theycomposition; is being translated into melody by the apparatus, when the usual printed sheet music is not available at the time, or cannot be found on the moment without the inconvenience of a search. Thus, it frequently happens that there is a genuine need to have the written musical composition including the words available instantly as the melody is being reproduced by the apparatus. It is with a view of meeting this need that the Written composition including the words has been combined with the perforated traveling music sheet in the manner herein disclosed.

In the accompanying drawing, the numeral 1 denotes a fragmentary portion of a sheet of conventional type, provided With the usual note perforations as 2, adapted to register with the apertures as 3 of the tracker board 4: for the reproduction of the melody in the usual way.

Upon the face 'of this sheet is printed, writte, or otherwise secured by suitable sections or divisions in parallel spacedapart positions, the staves including the notes, characters and words of the composition, the 'staves being either single as 5, representing but one part or division of the melody or comprising two or morestaves as (5 representing the treble and bass clef parts or keys of the melody. These staves may comprise the musical subject-matter for singing purposes only, or they may comprise the necessary musical subject-matter for the use of performers on violins, guitars,

banjos, cornets, trombomes, or any other string or wind instrument.

In the illustration presented in the accompanying drawing, the fragmental perforated note sheet 1 is shown with a melody in one stave as 5 including the notes, words, and expression indications as 7 printed on the bottom portion, While a continuation of the melody in proper sequence but here shown written in three staves as 6 with the accompanying notes and words is printed on the upper portion. It will be understood in this connection that the single stave and the triple staves are shown here on the same 0 two ad acent sections of stares own-1a ',":1g11 1e11tnl note sheet only fur the purpose Must-1': iiing how H10 different sin desired may be printed an the no? but That in manufiactm'c {155 a rule 1 ca] notation will be pl'ixrlmil m: note sheet in the same number: of lt'v\ proper succession just as it appear; i1 substantial i'es eci's Q11 the cam ed music sheet.

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